skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram, Reasons to Question the App's Privacy Claims
Great question and ADominic answered it well.
The C2 is an amazing rower, I have one too. We don't target the hard core rower. And a huge part of our high intensity experience is the electronically controlled resistance that adds up to 100+ lbs of resistance. Our rower automatically adjusts the resistance depending on the workout and your goals.
AT&T cellular lists a user's data usage in kilobytes rather than gigabytes on the account page to obfuscate their poor business practices. Paradigm of credulity.
I'm fairly certain these are leaded as well: https://www.seattleseaplanes.com/fleet-training.php
Once you know how the sausage is made, sometimes you don't want to eat sausages.

I actually do think that digital voting is theoretically possible, if done cautiously and in an open source manner. (it needs to be fully open source to be verifiable at all)

A remaining problem is that -in an election system- every voter needs to be able to check and perceive that the election was honest. That could still be a bit tricky in a society where not everyone is a programmer.
Cool product, congrats on the early success. My question: If the goal is HIIT or shorter workouts, why a rowing machine? Have you considered a design that incorporates pushing exercises as well like Concept2's Dyno - https://www.concept2.com/service/dyno ?
Why can't Mozilla launch a freemium email service is beyond me.

Free email with Firefox domain. Paid with custom domain.
There seems to be a strong focus on iterative process. Problems/needs are (actively) discovered and then boiled down to possible solutions/proposals or at least something that can be acted upon.

The focus on communication and discourse is paramount, because UX brings the user to the forefront and then has to convince owners and implementers. This kind of convincing is important and often challenging, because there are often tradeoffs involved.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/electric-floatplanes-could-help...
In my perception there is a group of considerable size who thinks that C++ is largely b*s*, but still uses C++ (technically) for one reason or another (availability of compilers, interfacing with existing ecosystems, availability of jobs) - in a way that is basically C with almost no C++ features.

This is a group of people that considers themselves systems programmers in the first place, and doesn't really care about the language very much, except that they don't want to have to deal with stuff like this: https://twitter.com/fabynou/status/784905829866614784

I don't see any reasons for the people in this group to not consider them "C/C++ programmers". Au contraire, I've found the people that like to point out that "C/C++ isn't a language" to be annoying nit-pickers that care too much about the language and too little about systems programming.
And that's not even getting into the privacy aspect. I, for one, reserve no excitement whatsoever for a world where we can interface directly with computers. I'm just hoping that unlike smartphones, it remains viably optional.
Does the distinction matter when he chose to drink and drive?Plenty of people choose to not drink and plenty of people choose to drink and not get behind the wheel of the car - seems like his degenerate behavior is pretty ingrained
OP here, I know what you mean.

I found it similarly irritating while sourcing the data that all the top 10 google results recycled the same, outdated recommendations.

Do you mean you'd like a central place to discover individual's curated list of blogs they read? Like blogrolls?
HP is getting into basic (compared to GabeN's ideas) work in this area with the Omnicept VR headset. It looks like eye tracking, pupillometry sensor, heart rate, and a face camera. Not direct neurotechnology but none the less using data to better understand and adapt to the user's response to VR.

https://www8.hp.com/us/en/vr/reverb-g2-vr-headset-omnicept-e...
One tool to manage all the communities you're in?
I came up with some this concept for an accountability project to try to just put something out and see what happens. I would love to see what everyones thoughts are on this concept(Questions, Qualms, Likes, Dislikes). Still doing some discovery on this. Thanks for anything you can feed me.

https://www.babilbox.com

Aims to be one platform to manage any community and discussions you're involved with online(Indiehakers, Hacker News, PRoduct Hunt, Reddit, Slack, Discord, Circle)
I don't think it's a good idea to make a password reset take 3 entire days. In this case, I'd say the costs outweigh the benefits.
> As an Army Reservist who has deployed 5 times I have had to make the mental switch, though this is more like extreme switching on/off your entire life.

This must be very tough, thanks for sharing.

> * Keep good notes. Be better prepared to jump back into a different task by knowing exactly where you left off, problem state, and what the next step is.

A special, limited case of this is ending your workday. While you're in the zone, and wrapping up your day set yourself up for success by preplanning your next action. If you're coding something and just committed your day's last checkin, write a quick sentence indicating what you're going to be working on tomorrow. When I am able to do this, regaining context next day is much simpler and easier for me.
Even that won't stop the lies about the election being stolen. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia are all paper ballot states [0] counted by machine but preserved for manual recounts. The lie just became that there was either ballot stuffing at some point, a point which changed every time a claim was disproven, or that the Dominion tabulation machines changed some Trump votes to Biden votes. Even Members who were elected in that very same election were saying it was fraudulent, just not their votes of course.

[0] https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_methods_and_equipment_by_stat...
Yes, json is so much simpler. Afaik, that is the reason for its popularity, even XML can be too much (especially as you browse the list of vulnerabilities in parsers).
I do this with my email, and it's definitely a non-issue. The problem is not people but processes - automated spam and the like.
Thanks, that really helps get an intuition for how this works! It's pretty clever really.
Yes, they actually exist in the West as research reactors, since there has been no demonstration or certification of their suitability for long-term operation.
That is how I interpreted it, but I think their marketing is completely wrong. Developers will do what you do. Marketing / Small biz owners do not want to learn git, cdns, etc.

https://forestry.io/ removes the complexity, but keeps all of the benefits of git static hosted websites allowing non-technical people to manage static websites.

Developers wont use this, but non-technical people _might_.

ps: I have no association with forestry
You are right about that, I concede you the point.

That said, I was mainly thinking of wind speed as you said (IIRC ~ haven't flown in a long time, and only ultralight: as you approach ground, you need to compensate for crosswind, but near the ground you need to stop compensating), but was also picturing the possibility of creating structures to break wind. Isn't it done sometimes for helicopters? Hangars surrounding helipads?
How is ending two lives not doing something seriously wrong?
To summarize: Change your approach from instilling your will into your child’s behavior and becoming frustrated with their non-compliance to patiently modeling the desired behavior for your child and asking for their cooperation. Accept that you will not get their cooperation every time, and have faith that they will eventually learn from your graciousness.

I think this would be helpful if the parent hadn’t yet tried it, but it hardly sounds foolproof. Are there any parallels in other environments or studies around this?
Not sure about your timeline; the 60s were predated by the McCarthy era.
You make a good point re: the C2 market. I mentioned up top that a huge part of our experience is the electronically controlled resistance that adds up to 100+ lbs of force. Our high-intensity games and strength content, which differentiates us, requires this and the reason why we opted to build our own rower. Thanks for the feedback.
Check out work by Jialin Ding and Vikram Nathan, they both work on multi-dimensional learned index structures.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.13282.pdf
True, but these seem to be very short haul flights, so they can probably get by. Just don't expect it to scale to the general case.
Otokichi
The question should be can you get re-infected via SA variant. And what’s the mortality rate on re-infection? At this point, you have to assume vaccine rollout is too slow to catch up with the spread.
Why must everything involve the computer? It was on paper when I was a kid, didn't require an army of six-figure salaries, and things seemed to go far more smoothly.
Google workers set up international union alliance
Fair if you ask me.. i practiced extreme meditation and sat with mosquitos one day .. it did wonders to how much i get stung now ..

They still take a bite or two on occasion.. it itches for less than an hour (worst was a week before did this ..) but not like before - its as if they let me be after i let them be.

There seems to be a strange relationship between prey and predator we still haven't understood that yet.
From the abstract of the paper linked in the article: No change for the UK variant, but lower efficacy for the South African variant (if my understanding of the abstract is correct):

No significant impact on neutralization against the B.1.1.7 variant was detected in either case, however reduced neutralization was measured against the mutations present in B.1.351.

Paper : https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.427948v1
People can't do these things even WITH everyone's consent.

What if I and 500 of my friends want to have a comics convention? With everyone fully aware and accepting of any risks?

Nope, absolutely not allowed anywhere in the entire damn world.

It's right there in the US Constitution. "No law abridging the freedom of the people to peaceably assemble." It does not say "except in case of arbitrarily-declared forever-lasting so-called emergency." If you want it to say that, amend it. If such an amendment wouldn't pass, that's because it damn well shouldn't.

This is freedom-destroying authoritarianism, and the frightened sheep like you eat it up. This is where democracy breaks, if 51% of people want to lock down the other 49% forever, the other 49% are fucked forever.

If you fear contagion and think you need to stay away from me, that is on YOU to restrict YOUR activities. You do not get to restrict mine.
> The system is clearly breaking down today where 75% of Republicans do not trust the election results and 75% of Democrats didn't trust the 2016 election.

To the extent that's true, it has far less to do with voting machines than with self-selected information bubbles.
"Offbase solves the problems above by getting rid of the server altogether:"

Replace Cloud with Git: Store content without a server

Er, there has to be a server hosting Git somewhere.

I think someone just re-invented Netscape Communicator.
> You can think of Offbase as something like Electron, but in a browser.

Uhh, the messaging is now even more confused.

Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

The browser is a framework for creating web-based applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

So what does it mean "Electron in a browser"?
I disagree. In a pandemic it's important to get solid and clear information to the population. If you start saying things that don't go through the proper channels to be verified as reasonably true, then you create massive confusion when you potentially have to go back on that information. Scientists can and do make mistakes. A lay person might not understand what "preprint" or "not peer reviewed" mean yet this article is on the BBC which the average lay person does trust as a source for reasonably true information.
> The "experts" are the new priests and science is the new religion.

Pretty much - sacrificing common sense on the altar of p-hacked statistics. It’s disturbing to witness.

> And don't you dare question it.

Nope, it is our civic duty to question all of it, until we are gagged or killed. Fuck that noise.
"Kids, that ugly, old refrigerator without a screen sitting in the garage is worth a lot of money and is your inheritance."
A Tiny Hashmap Library Written in C
An original source with literary style and editorial opinion is even better than Wikipedia's grocery list of randomness that doesn't make the reader care about anything but finding something more interesting than a committee written white paper.
It seems like your server can't handle the traffic.
I think that most of the VPS providers have similar prices, I personally use DigitalOcean as I really like their interface.
"[Dominion will probable be] treated as a public figure." Why? I'd never heard of them before November 2020, and I imagine that is true for most people. I'd also be curious to learn more about what counts as "reckless disregard for the truth", if you're willing to share.
The Air Force Envisioned an Airborne Aircraft Carrier
Bluetooth on Macs is infuriatingly broken, even with Apple's own products. I have the AirPods Pro with a 2019 13" MBP and run into similar issues: if I'm just listening to music, everything is fine. As soon as the microphones come on to do a call, the audio quality goes down the tube and there is a loud crackling noise in the right AirPod that never goes away (and I know this isn't the crackling problem with AirPods Pro in general, because I already had mine replaced to fix that issue, and they work fine on all other devices). I end up having to take the right one out, which defeats the entire purpose of having ANC headphones.
They have a good shot at being able to successfully show actual damages here, so it sounds like you're onboard with these lawsuits.
You mean, you would be better off.
The 3 billion people who can not afford to pay 200$ per month for various software will not be better off.
Didn’t that whole thing start to give people an alternative to... er... taking “souvenirs” of hotel property during their stay?
That's a really interesting looking machine - thanks for sharing. We chose the rower because it is one of the best full body workout machines and is something most people are somewhat familiar with thanks to the Olympics, CrossFit, Orange Theory, etc.
As a European, I wish we had access to services like "measuring your DNA methylation clock from a blood sample". This can be done affordably in USA / Canada, but not in the EU.

IDK if it is even legally possible to create an EU-wide consumer service like that, with blood samples moving across the borders. In some aspects, the single market isn't as single as we need.
In what way would a long prison sentence make someone less violent or more able to integrate into society?
Plus, if each cohort is a “group of [merely] thousands of people [any the worldwide internet population]”, the advertiser could probably narrow your identity pretty well using passive fingerprinting of cohort(s) + IP address + Chrome version + OS + OS version and maybe HTTP headers for languages locale and time zone, though those are probably strongly correlated with the client IP address.
I vaguely remember a speech of an MIT president (?) to new students that the faculty goal is to make them dissimilar to their parents.
Hard not to suspect that a giant display + embedded PC would also have a camera... "it was for eye-tracking, honest!"
Same. It also lets me see the controversial stuff at a glance, which is often interesting, even if it is rightly flagged.

I've been using it for more than five years as a first stop on my way in to HN posts.
Edited my comment when I saw this. This is exceedingly dangerous. Ask any rower that's worked with people on C2 machines. Everyone will instinctively throw the damper to setting 10, then throw their back due to bad posture.
Not had that one. The annoying one for me is the switching between the Mac and the iPhone. Never connects to the correct device ever. If I answer a call I have to spend 10 seconds debugging it and reconnecting.
It would be a lot harder to attack them if they didn't provide such a basis for it.

There was a time when journalists at least attempted to be independent:

https://conversationswithslava.substack.com/p/coming-soon

Glenn Greenwald:

https://reason.com/2021/01/23/journalists-are-authoritarians...

> Did you vote for Donald Trump in the last election?

> I didn't vote. It's ironic: That's the one old journalism trope that I agree with, which is that if you vote, you psychologically become too connected to a politician. I prefer to just keep my distance.

They're a dying breed.

And it was never the case that journalists were 100% objective and unbiased. That's impossible. But there was a point in time when they at least made the attempt. Avoided the appearance of impropriety.

If you want people to trust you, try being trustworthy.
I'm in Cambridge (MA) and until the plague shutdown commuted to work by bike pretty much every day. I've never bothered with studded tires because the number of days when it would really make a difference is not high enough to be worth the bother. The city recently put in some separated lanes on the main roads that they plow and salt (sorry, chain), but the painted bike lanes everywhere else gets slushy and rutted just as described in the video. And cars park in them because the spaces aren't cleared. Some of my coworkers think I'm nuts, but as the video says, most of them speak from no actual experience.
I highly doubt we'll have an exponential curve for manufacturing supply.

Even a 2x increase is incredibly difficult. Just look at n95 manufacturing, a much easier problem to solve. We never saw exponential curve in its manufacturing.
At least for me WebGL seems to be privacy cancer. Can't say I am surprised.
I used Linux (XPS15) at work for a 3 month period (Pop_OS!), mostly because I really enjoy using Emacs (and the performance on stock Windows is lacklustre). With the exception of bluetooth, which is absolutely tragic on Linux (I have issues with bluetooth everywhere, but this is next level), 40% of my job was actually very good using that computer.

On the flip side, my job uses Office and Teams quite extensively, and the browser experience is subpar. OneDrive sync is also spotty (InSync works ok, but it's not "set and forget" at least for my use-case). Everything works, but it's less easy than on macOS or Windows, so you have the added cognitive load. I ended up having a VM with Windows when I really need it. It got ridiculous when I needed to join Teams on my phone and my laptop to get sound and share my screen.

On top of that, Linux works very well for the fun work. I don't especially like doing PowerPoint decks or blazing through emails, but because the tools are less friendly, I end up spending more time doing stuff I don't enjoy doing. It means that my productivity gets lower. I miss i3, the familiar command line, all the goodies I got to discover and enjoy on my "play" machine, but the 60% remaining got more tedious.

I ended up moving back to a macbook air (which is less powerful than my Dell) because of the "lack of configuration" to get it to somewhere where I feel "peak productive". Some stuff at work I just want to get "done", and ultimately Linux (or the lack of good Linux compatibility with some of the tools my workplace mandates) went in the way.

I used WSL1 a little while back. It was nice, but it was another thing to get setup which I am not familiar with. I'll get windows back on the XPS and try, maybe it'll strike the right balance.

A bummer, really.
how I loved trying this in the computer science lab when this 1st hit gopher.
It’s hardly a new idea to count privacy as part of freedom.
> “ Unlike other services, we do not keep logs nor metadata, never read emails, and are 100% open-source.”

So how do you prevent abuse?
We produced a detailed comparison of such "fitting" and "learning" techniques, available here: https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol14/p1-marcus.pdf

(Thomas Neumann, one of authors of the blog post, is a co-author of the linked paper)
Last time I checked, 0.3% is much better than 0%.

Also it's not as if there aren't alternative payment processors.
Not every mastodon instance lets you browse their local feed if you're not registered to that instance. Now, it would be interesting if one could subscribe to multiple "local" feeds...
Oh yeah for sure you can block it using PiHole. Just add (^|\.)taboola\.com$ to your blacklist.

Bonus: add (^|\.)outbrain\.com$ too while you’re at it.
I think what works better are the short 'In Memoriam' portraits of random normal people who fell victim to the virus, where you see pictures of them from their life and sometimes family members talking about them. CNN does this occasionally.

Very powerful, and driving home that this drama can befall anyone.
You are probably right and I screwed up. It seems that the noise advantage is mainly against jet engines.
Any day now. I guess we will have a global info system a-la Hyperion with zero privacy. It will be suspicious to be absent from such a system instead.
They are related, but not the same. This recalibrating of logits is basically what you would do afterwards, to correct for the fact that you have been importance sampling your replay buffer.
It could be that someone read just the first line of your comment, realized it jived with their view, and upvoted before continuing on and finishing reading the rest of your comment. If HN stores timestamps of upvotes in the backend we could confirm (i.e. upvoting within milliseconds of submission = bot)
Could run Git entirely in the browser (isomorphic-git). Then use peer2peer to host the content.
The web editor/static site generator could be bootstrapped from a bookmark/URL that pulls the app from peer2peer.
Exactly. And SEO optimized garbage is already what we get currently.
The demise of XMPP has been greatly exaggerated. It's still very much alive and kicking.
Agreed. I do this and even without any good spam filter, my spam is down to at most 2 a week. The reason behind this is that most companies that exchange data use email/phone number as a unique key.

(I use fastmail to host. This is the only reason I can't use Hey yet.)
What Makes a Good Antenna?
Only short term efficient so far. All systems eventually suffer from rot, but efficient authoritarianism lasting more than one lifetime isn't impossible. Perhaps their political system there's more power in skimming growth than extracting rents. The history of democracy as we know it is very very short. Don't believe the cold war propaganda.

What system has lifted the most people out of poverty? It ain't American.
You joke but I can see the hiker thing with one click purchase and instant drone delivery becoming a popular service. You won’t even have to prepare or carry anything with you to go into the wild.
Yeah, and I would coin CDN as Cloud Debris Network, where abandoned pet projects and crap content is orbiting forever forgotten.